Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

The Intrinsic Value of Bank Equity I am a dabbler in all things valuation-related, and I find the process fascinating, as stories about businesses get translated into valuation inputs, and finally into value. With most non-financial service businesses, you face a choice in how you approach valuation. All Equity, All the time!

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

While M&A value dropped dramatically in 2022, a loss of 36% in deal value, Bain’s report confirms that deal activity continues to be a central corporate strategy for growth and profitability. The largest drops came among deals for Technology and Healthcare & Life Sciences assets, the firm pointed out.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Of course, and with small businesses, especially those built around personal services (a doctor or plumber’s practice), it is part of the valuation process, where the key person is valued or at least priced and incorporated into valuation. Who is a key person?

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CFO Share

MAY 5, 2023

The following are some strategies that we deploy with our clients during slowed economic growth. Forget 20%+ growth targets; 1-5% growth during an economic downturn is great for most businesses – certainly better than losing money. Throw out the playbook from the boom years and adopt strategies for business growth in a recession.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

The latest estimates from the Small Business Administration (SBA) peg the number of new SMBs at 414,000 each year, spurring job creation and economic growth for the country, with millennial entrepreneurs at the helm. Yet, once a company starts to churn a profit, business owners rarely consider their strategy of an eventual exit or sale.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

If margins and profits are already struggling then slashing prices for an entire season’s clothes will be very painful,” said Sophie Lund-Yates, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. In the U.K., there are 70 percent fewer new arrivals this week compared to last year. “If

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. billion rescue, and also said it had taken its valuation of the beleaguered workspace company down by 80 percent, to around $5 billion at the end of the most recent quarter.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 29, 2021

This is a “short” sale, and if you are right and the stock price drops, you can buy the shares at the now "discounted" price, return them to the original owner and keep the difference as your profit. If you believe this valuation, you would have been a strong buyer of GameStop for much of last year, since it traded well below my $47 estimate.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As the price dropped below $200 today (October 30,2023), I decided that it was time for me to revisit and revalue the company, taking into account the news, financial and other, that has come out since my last valuation in January 2023, and to understand the dueling stories that are emerging about the company.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

Pro forma income statement The income statement (also known as the profit & loss or P&L statement) mainly evaluates revenue and operating expenses, along with other metrics related to each like cost of goods sold (COGS) or net income. This is always important to do, but especially now in the midst of economic uncertainty.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the first, I will look at the grocery business, both in terms of growth and profitability of grocery stores, since Instacart, as an intermediary in the business, will be affected by grocery business fundamentals. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In the context of valuing companies, and sharing those valuations, I do get suggestions from readers on companies that I should value next. He suggested Blue Lagoon, a well-regarded Icelandic Spa with a history of profitability, that was finding its existence under threat, as a result of volcanic activity in Southwest Iceland.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

The primary attraction of the company, to investors, comes not from its current standing (modest revenues and big losses), but from its positioning to take advantage of the potential growth in the Indian food delivery market.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

While RIA M&A activity has been red hot during the past couple of years, a survey suggests that advisors are expecting lower valuations in 2023. A review of financial planning actions, from tax-loss harvesting to charitable giving, that have a December 31 deadline. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. We hope that we can invest behind and see stability so that there won’t be a loss of capital 00:28:00 [Speaker Changed] And, and above average GDP 00:28:02 [Speaker Changed] Growth. The auditors look at those valuations.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook’s most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022. .

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

It is true that economic activity has leveled off and housing prices have declined a little, relative to a year ago, but given the rise in rates in 2022, those changes are mild. The biggest winner, and this should come as no surprise, has been technology, with a return of 43% in 2023, and almost entirely recovering its losses in 2022.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook's most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It extends into materiality, by reframing that concept in terms of value, rather than profits, and connecting it to disclosure, with disclosure requirements increasing proportionately with the value effect. Many subscription companies explicitly disclose contribution profits (e.g., StitchFix).

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 11, 2023

This is particularly evident when considering how ESG key performance indicators (KPIs) are closely related to aspects in a profit and loss (P&L) statement and significantly impact financial outcomes. For example, incorporating renewable energy sources can influence an organization’s energy costs, affecting P&L figures.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? What is that?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. RITHOLTZ: So let’s take a couple of examples. Let me explain.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 6, 2023

Jason Zweig ) • ‘Pessimism of Disbelief,’ Illustrated : Sour sentiment and better-than-expected economic results are a normal bull market backdrop. Known as the Dean of Valuation, he teaches Corporate Finance and Valuation to the MBA students at Stern where he has been voted “Professor of the Year” by the graduating M.B.A.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

There is another seam or weakness in the global economic setting that Adani Enterprises exploited, and that is ESG, an acronym far more deserving of the "biggest con" label than Adani, since it is threatening to lay waster to trillions of dollars, not billions.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Valuation and Investment Judgment I know that your intent in reading this thesis might be a more pragmatic one, where you wonder whether the Adani companies were over valued at the start of this year, when they hit their all time high, and whether they are a bargain, at half that price today.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

News about Chime’s latest funding round might give pause when comparing the tech-savvy upstart’s valuation against some traditional banking players. Lime CFO On Driving Profits From Scooters. Challenger Bank Chime Now More Valuable Than Robinhood. Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump's WeChat Ban. What will you change?"

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about valuations relative to risk and reward.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. ASNESS: There are a few reasons. RITHOLTZ: Okay. RITHOLTZ: Past decade.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew. 00:44:11 [Speaker Changed] Kathy would may have her own valuation, so, but I can’t replicate it myself.

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